In Syrdarya, rice requires about 15–20,000 cubic meters of water per hectare, while in Khorezm around 25,000,” Vadim Sokolov, from the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, told Vlast. Each ...

The region’s vital water resources – such as the Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, and the Amu Darya and ... Crops like cotton, wheat, and rice dominate, employing over 10% of Kazakhstan’s population ...

Other favorites include plov (rice pilaf), shashlik (skewered meat ... If you have the time and patience, visiting the Aral ...

A scarcity of rice is causing discontent among farmers and consumers in Japan and drawing attention to a policy some say has worsened shortages. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno Reporting from ...

London — The Monday collision between a cargo ship and an oil tanker in the North Sea "has a high risk of being an environmental disaster in really important protected areas," Naomi Tilley ...

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive deposits of potent methane hydrates, or “flammable ice,” in 2015. Three years later, a Chinese mission successfully ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 26 (Reuters) - An agreement on freedom of navigation in the Black Sea to ensure the protection of civilian vessels and port infrastructure "will be a crucial contribution to ...

Thanks for following this live page today as we brought you the latest after the crash between an oil tanker and a cargo ship in the North Sea yesterday. We're pausing our coverage now for the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Global sea ice cover reached a record low in February, with temperatures near the North Pole spiking up to 11°C above average. This decline in sea ice is ...